Gathering client information (IP address and MAC Address)

Question

I'am creating a LAN chat application. I already created the client and the server part of the application.

What I want to know is how can my server display the information of the host that are connected to it. For example if there are 5 clients that are connected to the server, I want the server to gather the information of each client like IP address or its MAC address? Can anyone there help with this problem?

Answer 1

I'm guessing you're not working with ASP.NET, in which case you could get at least the IP Address by using the Request object properties.

Some information can be found here:

Reliable method to get machine's MAC address in C#

Identifying the client during a .NET remoting invocation

Answer 2

You would have to get the server to ask the client what its IP / MAC address is.

See this for getting your IP How to get the IP address of the server on which my C# application is running on?

I think you could find something similar for MAC

In order to better answer your question, how are the clients and servers communicating?